Posts tagged Integrated Mobility
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Bus lanes and free transfers are Washington area residents’ top bus priorities
Building more dedicated bus lanes and offering free transfers between bus and rail were the top recommendations from residents in a recent public survey for the Bus Transformation Project. That held true as first and second choices across age and racial lines and between regular riders and non-regular riders, though some groups put bus lanes tops while others chose free transfers as number one. Keep reading…
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Better transit, congestion pricing, and 18 other big ideas from a business group’s transportation blueprint
The super-Washington region, including DC, Baltimore, and Richmond, should improve the MARC and VRE rail systems including running service through DC. It should finish networks of trails and try congestion pricing in DC and adjacent parts of Arlington. It should improve bus service, promote employer incentives to not drive alone, increase equity, do more with technology, and better fund and govern transportation in the region. These are some of the recommendations from a wide-ranging new Blueprint for Regional Mobility, released Monday by the Greater Washington Partnership. Keep reading…
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SmarTrip was revolutionary, but it’s 20 years old. What’s next?
It was less than 20 years ago — 1999 to be exact — when Metro released SmarTrip, the first contactless payment card in American public transportation. A few years later, Baltimore’s CharmCard was designed to integrate with SmarTrip. At the time our region was a national model for mobility payment technology, but it’s hard to imagine anyone making such a claim today. Keep reading…
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What if our region had a seamless platform for buses, bikeshare, ride-hail, and more?
If you’re like me, you use a SmarTrip card, a Capital Bikeshare dongle, and half a dozen apps on your smartphone to access ridehail, bikeshare, or carshare — and none of them communicate with each other. That leads to time wasted toggling back and forth, especially if a trip requires more than one service. What if you could manage all of these in one place? Keep reading…